Robert Webb
Robert Webb is best known for his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. In 2017, his call-to-arms memoir How Not To Be a Boy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters. Come Again is his first novel. He will appear as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.
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Robert Webb on gender conditioning (or, the way you’re told how to behave because of what’s in your pants) – from the number one bestseller How Not To Be a Boy.
Robert Webb on gender conditioning (or, the way you get told how to behave because of what’s in your pants) – from How Not To Be a Boy.
Robert Webb is taking his heartbreaking and hilarious memoir How Not To Be a Boy on tour!
Robert Webb – author of How Not to be a Boy, star of Peep Show and statistically half of Mitchell & Webb – talks about his debut novel, Come Again, out now in paperback!
“My mood during the weeks before the operation was the kind of hysterical calm you’d expect from someone who’s just made an appointment to get hit by a lorry. I wandered quietly around the house downloading audiobooks and trying not to have a heart attack.”
Robert Webb – the author of the bestselling memoir How Not To Be a Boy and the new debut novel Come Again – wrote in the Observer about his very real, very close encounter with his own mortality.
Robert Webb
Observer
‘One idea that does come through effectively is how very far away, how very foreign the recent past seems. Those early 1990s might have seemed pretty humdrum at the time, presided over by John Major, but these days we look back on a politics that was “grey with sunny intervals — the frustrating weather of a functioning democracy” with almost tearful nostalgia … God knows we need a bit of a laugh and a thrill these days, books like this that are driven firmly by characters, setting and story.’
The Times
‘We’re here to talk about Webb’s debut novel, Come Again, a genre-defying time-travel tale — part adventure, part love story, part comedy, part dissertation on bereavement. It’s about a widow, Kate, whose husband, Luke, has dropped dead from a tumour that had been secretly growing in his brain since childhood. In the chaotic depths of heartbreak and despair, Kate awakes one day to find herself back in her old university halls bedroom. It is freshers’ week, she is 18 again, and here is her chance to remeet the undergraduate she will go on to marry and warn him about the time bomb in his head that, if left untreated, will kill him 28 years later. Come Again is a breathtakingly insightful evocation of grief.’
The Sunday Times
Watch Robert Webb read from his bestselling memoir How Not to be a Boy at the Hay Festival: ‘I thought only wimps needed manners, and only tough guys were brave.’
Robert Webb
The Hay Festival
“I haven’t written it because I think I’m special. I’ve written it because I think I’m typical.” Robert Webb in the Irish Times talking about how How Not To Be a Boy has made some angry men angrier, and why he’s not a feminist Yoda.
Irish Times
“It sounded to me that to be a gentleman, you needed both manners and bravery. And that thought was horribly fascinating. Because I thought only wimps needed manners. And only tough guys were brave”
“You think you’ve got something radical to say and then two princes of the realm go and agree with you. Terrific. Thanks, lads. I’ve never claimed to have much street cred but this is the limit.”
New Statesman